48 LEPIDOPTERA. 



ficaria, and other low-growing plants, but Mr. W. E. Nichol- 

 son states that when full grown in April his larva? refused 

 low plants but readily devoured young buds of ash. Another 

 observer found that at this time privet was selected. 



Pupa apparently undescribed. 



The moth does not seem to have been taken in this 

 country in the daytime. At dusk it is readily attracted 

 bv sugar and ivy-bloom. When at rest its fore wings do 

 not fold down so as to form a deep channel, as is the case 

 with some of its allies. In this country it is one of our most 

 local species, apparently confined to chalky slopes and the 

 marshy ground at their base, within a few miles of the South 

 Coast of England. The first record of the occLu-rence of the 

 insect in this country was by Mr. J. N. Winter, of the Sussex 

 County Hospital, who had, with a friend, in October 1855, 

 taken five specimens at sugar near Brighton. The following 

 year a good many were secured near Brighton, Lewes, and 

 Shoreham, and in 1857 many more; but this abundance was 

 not permanent. Other localities were found near jSTewhaven, 

 Arundel, Battle, and Bramber, all in Sussex ; but Mr. J. H. A. 

 ■Tenner now informs me that the insect seems to have dis- 

 appeared from the Lewes district, and that he does not know 

 of its capture elsewhere for several years. It is most earnestly 

 to be hoped that it has not been exterminated by the eager- 

 ness of collectors. I know of no other locality in these 

 Islands. Abroad it is a Southern species, found in Central 

 and Southern France, Italy, Corsica, Spain and Dalmatia. 



Genus 43. EUPLEXIA. 



Anteunge ciliated ; eyes naked, with short back lashes ; 

 thorax furnished with a small top-crest and a large one at 

 the back ; abdomen with two or three distinct crests ; fore 

 wings rather short, broad behind, in repose deflected and 

 deeply channelled ; hind margin crenulated ; hind wings 



